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Many thanks for your patient responses Max. The light is at last starting to dawn.
I'll play with the Bandwidth setting and band selection, but now the boundaries are clear.
73, David G3WGN M6O

Max, it makes some sense, but does not explain the use of 'all at once' and a video showing several bands simultaneously showing live waterfalls on the Multi-Band web page, along with a recommendation to use the ANAN, RX888 or SDRPlay. Please take a look and tellme what I misunderstand there.
Thanks ...

Max, I understand your comments (that's how I thought SDRs work too) but they are in direct contradiction to the 'Multi-Band' page on the SDRConsole website https://www.sdr-radio.com/multi-band
The page is headed 'all at once' and refers to receiving multiple bands simultaneously. The accompanying ...

Max, I understand all that, but it still doesn't explain why Simon's page recommends (amongst others) the SDRPaly for the multiband job and clearly shows simultaneous 'live' waterfalls, for all the selected band segments.
73, David G3WGN

Well understood Pete, but this page: https://www.sdr-radio.com/multi-band clearly shows multiple waterfalls simultaneously. Watch the short video for confirmation. The overall10MHz banwidth will limit the band selection, but monitoring e.g. all the HF amateur CW allocations will only add up to a MHz ...

Hi,
I'm using SDRConsole for the first time. Setup is W10 PC with SDRPlay RSPdx. All working fine with single band display.
When I select Multiband and, for example, Amateur CW, I get the full matrix on screen of the expected bands, but only one waterfall display is active. How do I get ...